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Social Semantic Digital Librariesin a Nutshell

Sebastian Ryszard KrukDigital Enterprise Research Institute

National University of Ireland, Galway

sebastian.kruk@deri.orghttp://www.sebastiankruk.com/

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Different User Roles – Different Requirements

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What is a Social Semantic Digital Library?

Social semantic digital libraries– integrate information from various

sources

– provide interoperability with other systems (not only libraries)

– deliver more robust, user friendly and adaptable search and browsing interfaces empowered by semantics and social networking

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JeromeDL – Social Semantic Digital Library

• Digital Library build with semantics and communities in mind

• Build to reflect requirements of:– Librarians– Researchers– Average users

• Ultimate goal – accessibility achieved through– Interface design– Search and browsing technologies– In-depth internationalization effort

Ontologies in JeromeDL

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JeromeDL – Delivering Semantic Content

• Providing semantic annotations during uploading process:– open module (JOnto) for handling any taxonomies– keywords based on:

• WordNet

• free tagging

– defining structure of resources in the JeromeDL ontology

• Lifting legacy metadata to MarcOnt ontology• Community maintained annotations

– social semantic collaborative filtering– semantic descriptions based on the FOAF metadata

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JeromeDL – Semantic Information In Use

• Keyword-based search with semantic query expansion• Semantic search:

– Direct RDF querying– Natural language templates

• Social Semantic Collaborative Filtering• Faceted Navigation:

– creators, – types, – keywords, – topics

• Heterogeneous communication:– Bibster, A9, OAI

Getting your own copy of JeromeDL

• JeromeDL is distributed under BSD-style open source license

• You can get it though:– Home page: http://www.jeromedl.org/– SourceForge.net page: http://sf.net/projects/jeromedl/– A guide to JeromeDL: http://www.jeromedl.org/guide/

• You can also get JeromeDL 2.0 Box on CD – please contact us for further information

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Semantic Components Framework

JeromeDLTM

semantic digital library

knowledge sharing

SSCFTM FOAFRealmTM

social networks based DRM

scalable P2P infrastructure

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on-demand e-learning

mediation ontology & services

MarcOntTM

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JeromeDL answerJeromeDL answers s various expectationsvarious expectations

as as the Digital Library on the Digital Library on Social Semantic Information Social Semantic Information SpacesSpaces

http://www.jeromedl.org/http://wiki.jeromedl.org/

Sebastian Ryszard KrukDERI, NUI Galway, Ireland

sebastian.kruk@deri.org